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So Canada 2 got bounced from the IIHF World Championships, and Corey Perry is eliminated from the DCC. Anybody care? The only thing worth bothering with is that Canada will probably lose some ground in the official world rankings for hockey, after we reclaimed it so awesomely in the Olympics. Meh, we still rule at hockey. Did anyone really not think Ray Whitney was going to lead us to international glory against Ovechkin, and every other player who was mad they lost at the Olympics, when all our good players were quite content with what they already accomplished for us?

Chicago’s manhandling of San Jose has awoken Joe Thornton from his comatose state, but is it already too late? Answer: yes. Montreal decided they like winning better than losing too. Interesting hockey coming up…

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So The Office ended its most recent season Thursday night. All year, I was left with a lingering thought of this, one of my favourite shows: I wish the Office writers turned Parks & Recreation’s writers hadn’t given P&R all the good scripts and storylines this season. It really was not The Office’s best season. Though the shows’ writers will deny it, P&R is clearly the Pawnee, Indiana version of The Office. For whatever reason, Rashida Jones, the former Karen Filippelli on The Office who ended up as the Manager of Dunder-Mifflin Utica, for some reason changed her name to Ann Perkins, cut her hair, abandoned her child and husband, moved to Indiana, became a nurse, and met and befriended Leslie Knope the female, Indiana version of Michael Scott. There she also met April, the female Dwight Schrute; Mark, the Indiana Jim Halpert; Tom, the Andy Bernard of Indian descent; Jerry, the fat Toby; and Donna, the large, African-American Kelly. Surely you can make a few other connections yourself if you watch both shows. Too bad it means that one show has to get mediocre. Maybe that’s at least partially why Steve Carell isn’t coming back after next season…

With DVR’s, PVR’s, and torrent downloading, is anyone even watching TV anymore? It’s great to record TV and watch it when you like, but you still have to fast forward the commercials. To my wife and I, downloading torrents is definitely the way to go. You can’t watch it immediately because you have to wait for the show to be uploaded, but no one’s doing that anyway, hence all the D and P V-R’ing. As far as mindless entertainment goes, there’s nothing like watching your favourite 22 minute episode commercial free. The only lame part is that you have to wait a week for new stuff. One of the best moves I ever made (and I give full credit to my wife for this) is starting to watch LOST this way after four seasons had already gone by. We could string together 3 or 4 episodes together in one sitting, and never be left dangling off any dramatic cliffs unless we chose to. Now unfortunately, we’ve caught up to speed; luckily right in time for the big finale of which has no chance in satisfying anyone in tying up all the series’ loose ends to viewers’ satisfaction. Much like Seinfeld’s finale, and Dr. Dre’s Detox album, the hype has created an unobtainable contentment standard. When you think about Seinfeld’s finale from a logistical standpoint, where did you think Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer – the most cynical and judgemental fictional characters on the planet (albeit the most hilarious as well) – deserved to end up, besides in prison, with each other? I have a feeling LOST’s finale is going to make sense in the end, but the majority of people will not be happy with it.

If you’re looking for the BEST TV TORRENT DOWNLOAD SITE IN THE WORLD, look no further than eztv.it . Posts every day’s new episode torrents, and they’re always virus-free. If you live anywhere besides the USA, don’t waste your time with hulu.com , no matter what it says you’ll be able to watch. I want to hack and destroy hulu.com every time it tells me my video can’t be displayed in my region (note to security people reading this: I’m not actually capable of doing either of those). I can watch U.S. shows on TV, download U.S. shows from the internet, but can’t stream them from hulu.com because I live outside the U.S. That seems fair.

And lastly, HD and Blu-Ray, Plasma and LCD all seem a little low-tech now that 3D TV’s exist, don’t they? The technology train sure has chugging along the last few years; this “Digital Age” that we’re living in may end up being the continually the awesomest thing ever, or the complete and utter death of itself and modern commerce. What’s that? You bought a 50” HD plasma TV last year for $5000 that’s now obsolete? That’s a shame…

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